crossing the line 2

A few more pictures from the road trip.
1. Mist on the mountains
2. A rather startling sign of what would happen if I was not paying attention to my driving, rather fitting considering the twists and turns of the road we were on
3. Tank barricades. These cement blocks litter Korea, especially up here where every road has the potential to have tanks roaring down it. If you put dynamite in the little holes under the supports the main blocks of cement will come tumbling down, blocking the road.
4. And of course, who could guess that we would find time to visit a temple on this little trip?
5. The North Korean Labour Headquarters. Surprisingly enough this remnant of communism sits just inside the southern half of the D.M.Z. This building was the local headquarters of the communist party until 25.6.1950 when war erupted across the peninsula and this section, called the Iron Triangle, saw some of the hardest fighting of the war, (Pork Chop Hill is in the area). Because of its significance to the D.P.R.K. this building was shelled constantly throughout the war, and now stands as a memorial to "Communist Aggression", bullshit in my opinion because of the vast numbers of cross border raids by R.O.K. before the northern invasion. There were mass graves discovered behind the building but they could easily be from South Korean atrocities rather than D.P.R.K. violence.